A snake that comes from an egg can also be called a hatchling, while the young of snakes that give live birth can also be called neonates. Paul wore a snake-proof costume, that was meant to protect him from the digestive enzymes in the stomach of an Anaconda. Normal Chinese people do not eat babies. In that episode, they brought a naturalist called Paul Rosolie. A successful meal for a snake is swallowed head first. Diet of the Gopher Snake. During birth, the juvenile Black Racers are 6 inches long. The snake lives in moist habitats close to water. The adult snakes do not feed their babies nor protect them. But it is the snake most frequently encountered by humans. Snake expert Nia Kurniawan from Indonesia's Brawijaya University, told BBC Indonesia that pythons are sensitive to vibrations, noise and heat from lamps, so they normally avoid human … Pythons are more likely to do this than anacondas, I don't think any cases have been reported with the anaconda. Most big snakes do not hunt human prey and can eat too much. The only snakes capable of swallowing a small child would be large constrictors like green anacondas, reticulated pythons, Burmese pythons, and African rock pythons and even these snakes would have immense difficulty with this. Some meals are simply too big. If a snake can manipulate its jaws around the shoulders of a human than it can be successfully swallowed. Depending on their range, some other common prey items include lizards, small snakes, frogs, and eggs. According to the National Post, the escaped snake was an African rock python—a type of constrictor known to kill humans—that was 14 to 16 feet (4.2 to 4.9 meters) long. The total number of baby black racers that can take birth at a time is a wide range varying between 3 and 32. To promote this piece of art and the concept, perhaps, the fabricated hoax that Chinese eat baby soup for sex came up. It hunts on land and in water and can even climb trees. I was looking up information on snakes a couple of weeks ago, and contrary to movies like Anaconda, snakes don't really eat humans. The snake will continue to work its jaws around the prey once the head is consumed. It accounts for 16% of all snake bites. There are more than 3,000 species of snake in the world, and snakes live on every continent except Antarctica. Discovery Channel, in an attempt to prove that Anacondas do eat humans, aired an episode called ‘Eaten Alive’. One study found that 6-month-old infants’ pupils widened when they saw images of snakes, compared with images of fish, suggesting that humans are primed to fear snakes. The ‘disturbing’ pictures of baby fetus soup were part of an art exhibit ‘eating people’ that came from the controversial artist Zhu Yu. The baby Black Racer mostly survives by the process of camouflage. The red bellied black snake is venomous, non-aggressive and avoids humans. They also frequently prey on rats, mice, and other rodents. 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